Horner's Corner-August 1

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07/31/2012 09:00:00 PM MDT

Maybe it's because I am growing older, but over the past few years, I have become one of those people that does their best to keep a positive attitude and find the best in each situation. Or at least I try.And as we all know that's not always an easy thing to do - considering everything that's going on in our society these days.I am a firm believer that life is what you make of it, so why be a Grumpy Gert if you really don't have to be?But once in a while I slip up and become that "Gert". The sad thing is that it's usually over something pretty silly and downright stupid. Go figure.A week or so ago, my husband set an ice chest out beside the garage to air out. Not sure why as we don't use it all that often but apparently he had a good reason.He came home Monday night asking me where I moved the chest to. Not having touched it, and not having noticed it there the previous couple of days, my response was that I thought he had picked it up.Apparently not.While the only thing I do know for sure is that it didn't grow legs and walk away, it is my belief that someone obviously needed it a whole lot worse than we did.The upside - it's one less thing to clean and store away in the garage.See, if you look hard enough, there's always a bright side to every situation.In other life matters, I have to tell you that I am very proud of myself as I recently did something that I haven't done in a number of years - I read a book.Yes, I actually sat down and read an entire book.

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Not that I haven't gone to our local library numerous times in our years in Brush and picked one off of the shelf, but unfortunately once I got it home, the book would do nothing more than collect dust until it was due back in the book drop or librarian's desk.But of course there is a downside to this situation and I hate to admit it, but it was a large print edition.Guess that can only mean one thing - I'm getting older. Or it could be that I have bad eyesight.Since I have been in glasses since the second grade, I'm going with the latter as that makes me feel a whole lot better.Yes, sometimes I look at like through rose-colored glasses…and that's okay in my book.